10 Questions for Billy Crystal

After 30 years as a stand-up comic, movie actor and eight-time Academy Awards host, Billy Crystal cracked Broadway last season, starring in 700 Sundays, a one-man show about his New York childhood and the death of his father. Now he has launched a five-city tour of the show, and a book version ("the director's cut") is due Oct. 31. He talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin.

YOU WON YOUR TONY. WHY TAKE THE SHOW ON TOUR? I'm not done with it yet. And I wanted more people to see it. It's still evolving. I've made changes. I've moved stuff in and moved...